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New Orleans repeating deadly levee blunders (AP)

August 24, 2008 by  

Steps that once led to a home are that are all that is left of the residence as new construction goes on in the background in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.

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